Overview
- Adopts an ethnographic approach to life experiences of single mothers in Thailand from an intersectional perspective
- Develops “passive-aggressive social exclusion” as a new typology to provide policy recommendations
- Looks at single mothers as one of many overlapping category of multiple oppressions, marginalization, and exclusion
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This book investigates a range of major sociological debates and policy studies related to gender, family, marriage, health, intersectionality, and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand. It does so by analyzing ethnographic data gained from participant observation at NGOs and a psychiatric hospital, in-depth interviews with single mothers and social workers, and a review of government policy documents and reports from 2020 and 2021. The conceptual framework of the study draws on gender as a social construct and intersectionality as critical social theory. Using this framework, the book aims to offer new scholarly insights by looking at single mothers as a category of multiple and overlapping oppressions, marginalization, and exclusion, which intersect not only with gender, class, and ethnicity but also with other significant categories, such as hometown neighborhood, religion, and health conditions, all significant but under-researched subjects in the Thai context. Moreover, the book also provides policy recommendations to the Thai government to improve its social policies for single mothers and achieve gender equality in Thailand.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Herbary Cheung (he/him/his) is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and contextual mobility, focusing on Southeast Asia-Hong Kong connections. He is the author of Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Single Mothers in Thailand
Book Subtitle: Women, Motherhood, and Going it All Alone
Authors: Herbary Cheung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57655-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57654-6Published: 10 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57657-7Due: 24 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57655-3Published: 09 September 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Employee Health and Wellbeing